There are many techniques for electricity market price forecasting. However, most of them are designed for expected price analysis rather than price spike forecasting. An effective method of predicting the occurrence of spikes has not yet been observed in the literature so far. In this paper, a...

In coming years, there will be billions of RFID tags living in the world tagging almost everything for tracking and identification purposes. This phenomenon will impose a new challenge not only to the network capacity but also to the scalability of event processing of RFID applications. Since...

Chapter 1: Why Is the Sex Ratio Unbalanced in China? The Roles of the One-Child Policy, Underdeveloped Social Insurance, and Parental ExpectationsThe sex ratio imbalance in China has reached such an alarming level that, by 2020, men of marriageable age are estimated to outnumber women by 24...

Porter's 2001 'strategy and the Internet' paper is a key article in the field of on-line strategy. This paper assesses Porter's views in the light of current and past developments. Porter's paper, whilst still thought provoking in many ways, now shows some weaknesses, and in places is no longer...

This dissertation includes three essays on hedging the interest rate and credit risks of Mortgage-Backed Securities (MBS).Essay one addresses the problem of how to efficiently estimate interest rate sensitivity parameters of MBS. To do this in Monte Carlo simulation, we derive perturbation...

In coming years, there will be billions of RFID tags living in the world tagging almost everything for tracking and identification purposes. This phenomenon will impose a new challenge not only to the network capacity but also to the scalability of event processing of RFID applications. Since...